On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:47:08AM -0700, Tracy Reed wrote:
Many self-taught programmers are not aware of algorithms and do not understand their use or implementation.
Someone at work actually approached me once, saying something like: "We understand you used a data structure, and were wondering if we could make use of it." I'd used a red-black tree in some code. It was highly specialized and optimized for the particular application, but the basic algorithm came right out of a textbook. The section on the link you gave of Graph algorithms is very useful. It's not usually obvious to people who their problem even would apply to a graph, and therefore they don't think of graph algorithms. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
